A CIHR-funded, interdisciplinary research program working to identify effective #policy interventions to reduce household #FoodInsecurity in Canada
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Food insecurity in Canada keeps rising, and food banks in this country are strained to their limit. Dr. Valerie Tarasuk of PROOF joins @thebigstoryfpn to discuss the scale of the problem and the inadequacy of the response. toronto.citynews.ca/2024/10/…
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✨More speakers for our Convening 2024: Toward Just and Affordable Systems // Nouveaux intervenants pour notre Conférence 2024 !
Kristen Lowitt and Tim Li will be joining the discussion on the panel Food Affordability: Income & Equity.
More info here: tr.ee/P1afXpfRug
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With prices of food having gone through the roof, #TemertyMed Dr. Valerie Tarasuk said it's "predictable" that food bank demand has risen dramatically, including among people who have jobs. @CBCNews bit.ly/4dPm7Ci
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Food insecurity in Canada keeps rising, and food banks in this country are strained to their limit. Dr. Valerie Tarasuk of @proofcanada joins us to discuss the scale of the problem, and the inadequacy of the response: link.chtbl.com/UYIyzPYC
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The recently announced national school food program won’t solve food insecurity for families.
Instead, as Tim Li and Valerie Tarasuk explain, action on the Canada child benefit is required to this end.
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"The persistence of #FoodInsecurity and its recent rise to unprecedented levels suggest more is needed to realize the poverty-reduction strategy’s vision," writes Tim Li & Valerie Tarasuk via @NatObserver
Tarasuk's #InformedOps @ bit.ly/2YmkjLx
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Le programme national d’alimentation scolaire ne réglera pas l’insécurité alimentaire.
Selon Valerie Tarasuk et Tim Li, une Allocation canadienne pour enfants améliorée serait la meilleure politique pour combattre l’'insécurité alimentaire des familles.
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Some alarming but (unfortunately) not surprising new data from Statistics Canada.
Rates of food insecurity continue to rise and more and more people are becoming (more severely) food insecure.
A few highlights from the N.L. data below: (1/4)
🚨Statistics Canada has released new data on food insecurity. In 22.9% of people in the ten provinces lived in a food-insecure household amounting to 8.7 million people, including 2.1 million children.
Our summary and interactive graphs here 📈📊: proof.utoronto.ca/2024/new-d… (1/8)
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An important thread & summary on food insecurity in Canada. ➡️ “The estimates for 2023 are the highest in the almost 20 years of monitoring.”
Note: “Living in a food-insecure household means living in pervasive material deprivation w/compromises to basic needs beyond just food.”
🚨Statistics Canada has released new data on food insecurity. In 22.9% of people in the ten provinces lived in a food-insecure household amounting to 8.7 million people, including 2.1 million children.
Our summary and interactive graphs here 📈📊: proof.utoronto.ca/2024/new-d… (1/8)
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"Boosting those funds [for food banks] does not and cannot address the root causes [of #FoodInsecurity]," said Dr. Valerie Tarasuk @proofcanada via @Joe_Bongiorno_
Tarasuk's #InformedOps @ bit.ly/2YmkjLx
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/…
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Read Dietitians of Canada full position statement on addressing household food insecurity via the 🔗dietitians.ca/Advocacy/Prior…
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“Nearly one in four children live in food insecure households which is heartbreaking,” said Leslie Beck, Chair of the Board of Directors of Dietitians of Canada.
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With food insecurity at an all-time high and food banks buckling under high demand as we head into this holiday season, Prof. Elaine Power of @queensu says we need to instead focus on long-term solutions that tackle the issue at its root. Listen to #DCMR dont-call-me-resilient.simpl…
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ICYMI Food banks are an important lifeline for millions of Canadians, but growing evidence shows that charity is not a durable solution to food insecurity: research2reality.com/science… @uoftnews @researchuoft @DalhousieU @DalNews @UNB @UofT_dlsph @proofcanada @RoyalRoads
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Last year, 22.9% of households in N.L. experienced some degree of food insecurity in the previous 12 months. That’s the highest provincial rate in Canada.
@proofcanada's latest report is clear: food insecurity is getting worse.
Read the N.L. highlights aa foodfirstnl.ca/blog/proof-re…
ALT A single empty wire shopping cart on wet pavement. Text: "In 2022, 22.9% of households in N.L. experienced food insecurity in the past 12 months."
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Despite our pleas, and warnings from advocacy groups like @proofcanada, there’s still a lack of meaningful action from every level of government to reduce food insecurity.
It's time for governments to listen and take steps to introduce solutions for long-term change.
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This report, created by @proofcanada, provides an in-depth exploration of food insecurity with additional descriptions and analyses of sociodemographic and economic characteristics and year-to-year change.
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📸 by PROOF
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"Simply having a job isn’t enough to prevent #FoodInsecurity. In fact, the main source of income for 60% of food-insecure households in the 10 provinces is salaries and wages," write authors Valerie Tarasuk and Tim Li following @proofcanada's new report: ow.ly/O5rv50QaKAu
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Great article in @ConversationCA
Food insecurity in Canada is the worst it's ever been — here's how we can solve it theconversation.com/food-ins… via @ConversationCA
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A new report today from @proofcanada showing growing food insecurity - again.
"What frustrates me most is we have clear, realistic solutions for governments to implement to stop this" @tebrons @DailyBreadTO toronto.citynews.ca/2023/11/…
proof.utoronto.ca/resource/h… @tebrons